Chapter 2

Sly Cooper quickly reacted and made sure the young woman fell against him and not face first into the cement. Once he had done this he found himself smiling as he let out, "So you're name's Aerith?" He noticed something was wrong with the human prompting him to gently press a gloved hand against her forehead. Once he had done this he quickly pulled it away while he added, "Woah, looks like you've got quite the fever. I better you back to my hideout until you're better."

After the anthro raccoon had said this he repositioned himself while he lifted the brunette and her staff in his arms holding her bridal style. Once he had made sure the young woman's staff was still in her possession and her head was resting up against his shoulder he turned to go on his way. Before he did though he heard a familiar voice as it spat, "I never thought you would stoop so low Sly Cooper. Have you gotten so tired of the life of thievery that you have decided to kidnap someone? This just gives me more reason to make sure I am the one to see you behind bars."

The thief smiled smugly knowing who the person was while he answered back with, "As much as I enjoy our little games of tag, Carmelita. I'm afraid we'll have to postpone you trying to catch me tonight." He turned fully to face the person who was an anthro vixen with long blue hair and who wore her own type of police uniform. His gaze moved from the vixen to the young human woman as he went on with, "And if you can't tell I have a young woman here who has a fever that I have to get rid of."

The hazel eyed raccoon's ears twitched when he heard the yellow eyed fox load her pistol and aim it at him while she said, "I don't think so Cooper. Stay right where you are and hand the human over to me and I'll take her to the hospital."

Sly just turned his attention away from the orange furred vixen as he responded with, "Sorry Carmelita, but I don't like the idea of you or any of the other officers questioning her once she's better."

"You're right we will question her after she has gotten over her sickness. However, you must know we will only being doing this so we can have general information about her." The vixen protested, as she took one step forward. Once she had done this she also continued with, "And besides how I do know you won't just do the same thing?"

Hearing such a thing caused the thief to lightly chuckle as he replied, "You know you're right I might ask her a few things. But I know I won't be asking her a lot of personal things unlike what you and the others would." A grin spread across his muzzle as he turned his attention back to the young woman in his arms for a moment while also keeping one eye on the inspector. He gently moved the hand that was closest to her head and moved a strand of her hair from her face to behind her ear before he went on with, "But I have to admit for a human she's pretty cute."

The anthro thief watched as the blue haired vixen's expression become that of jealousy while she questioned, "What do you think you're doing? Are you trying to go beyond just kidnapping her?" She pointed her pistol at him with slight anger in her eyes as she added, "Now I'll make sure to get that human away from you before you do something you'll regret."

"Well, the only way you'll be able to stop me is if you're able to catch me first." Sly commented in response, before he started to run away from the blue haired inspector.

He knew this had set the vixen off as he heard her voice while she shouted, "Get back here, Cooper!"

The raccoon just ignored the orange furred fox as he continued to run down the sidewalk until he turned into another alleyway. He was hoping he could lose his pursuer by jumping up onto a fire escape stairway. When he came to the end of the alleyway though he saw the ladder for the outside staircase had been put up which made his early idea more difficult to go through with. His ears twitched when he heard some footsteps heading towards him. He knew it was Carmelita as she ordered, "Alright Cooper, enough with these games! Now hand the human over to me. And I don't want you to do anything funny while you're doing this."

Sly could not help but put on a smug smile as he turned to face the vixen. And once he was facing her he responded with, "Games? What in the world are you talking about Carmelita?" He slowly began to lower himself towards the ground while he went on with, "And even though this has been fun. I'm afraid I'll have to leave you for right now."

The anthro raccoon proceeded to jump into the air with the young woman still in his arms. And when he saw the bottom of the ladder he quickly pulled out the Cooper Cane and grabbed onto the end of it with the C shaped part of the weapon. He swung back and forth a few times before releasing the cane from the ladder while he flew under and over the bottom of the first set of steps. Once he was on the flight of stairs the thief put away the cane and looked down at the young woman to make sure she was alright before he looked over the railing at the inspector and said, "See you around, Carmelita." As he walked up the stairway while ignoring the vixen's shouts of rage and saying how she would catch him one day Sly gently placed his hand on the human's forehead before he quickly pulled it away as he added, "Gee, I guess I shouldn't have been talking with Carmelita for so long. Your fever seems like it's gotten worse. I better hurry then, huh?"